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G. G. FIRTH. SHIELD FOR STAND OR RANGE BOILERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE7, 1913.

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THE COLUMQIA PLANOGRAPH C0.v WASHINGTON. D. C.

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Be it known that I, GEORGE G. FIRTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shields for Stand or Range Boilers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in what is known as stand or range boilers, the'object of the invention being to provide improved means for ornamenting the same whereby the ordinary stand or range boiler may have a clean and sanitary appearance and may correspond with other fixtures of a kitchen.

As is well known it is now usual to have the fixtures of a kitchen of white enamel or porcelain, thewalls of the kitchen likewise being not infrequently tiled, but so far as'I am aware there has been no practical way of having the stand or range boiler correspond with the tiled walls and other white fixtures of a kitchen. It is extremely difficult, if not entirely impractical to enamel the boiler itself for among other reasons the heat of the boiler is likely to crack the enamel when-such enamel is applied directly on the boiler.

Therefore, the present improvement consists in providing a simple and compara an ordinary stand or range boiler to give thereto the same appearance as other fixtures contained in the kitchen and which improvement may be applied to range or stand boilers already in use. 7 e i 1 In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the usual vertical stand boiler havingin section this improvement applied'thereto; Fig. 2 illustrates .the same as applied to a horizontally supported rangeboiler.

Similar characters of reference indicate I corresponding parts throughout the different figures of the drawings.

The stand or range boiler2 shown of the vertical type in Fig. 1 is usually supported by a stand 3 resting upon the floor and is provided with the usual inlet and. outlet pipes. For the purpose of giving the same an ornamental appearance, I provide a shell 4 having in the form shown in Fig. 1 a lower GEORGE arisen, OFVBBOOKLYN, NEW YonK.

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SI-IIELDFQR STAND on RANGE BOILERS.

Specification of Letters Patent Patented 1W3, Y, 1916 Application filed June 7,1913. Serial No. 772,268. 7

open end as at 5, whichshell is provided at v,

its upper end with a circular opening 6' to permit the passage of the usual pipes 'to the stand boiler. This shell is preferably prov1ded w1th areinforced edge? which may if desired be located on the outside of the top portion 8 of the shell, but in the present lnstance is shown located on the underside thereofso as to rest on the top of the stand boiler Qand thus form an efficient means of supportlng the same with the annulartop 8 a slight distance away from the top 9 of The shell 4 is so made that the stand boiler. t is slightly larger than the stand boiler 2 ltself, and will thus constitute a means for maintaining the heat within the stand boiler while at the same time the air space between the two will be such that the heat ofthe boiler will not crackthe enamel. Thisv shell 4 is enameled in any of the'usual ways to give it the desired ornamental appearance, as for instanceit is dipped in white enamel and baked in the usual way of applying enamel, V i the shell of course beingmade of a suitable metal to take the enamel.

mental shell it is merely necessary to un- 1 couple the usual supply pipes and place the shell in position, it 'of course being provided withan openinglO at its side for the passage of the outlet pipe. IWhen it is de-' sired to apply this improvement to horizon- .tal boilers the shell preferably consists of a body 12 and a pair of end members 13 and '14, the several parts being provided with the necessary openings for the passage, of the pipes. Each end member may be in the form of a flanged cover adapted to fit over the body member 12. Of course ,it will be understood that the body member 12 and one of the covers 14 might be used in place of the structure shown in Fig. 1, as no endmember will be necessary at the lower end of the shell shown in Fig. 1, for the reason that this is usually near the floor.

When that form of the improvement shown in Fig. 2 is used it will be left to the plumber or mechanic installing the structure to properly space the'enamel shell from the boiler, which he can readily do by simply placing a small piece of asbestos block between the upper side of the boiler and the which shell can'be readily detached should it be necessary to reneW- the stand boiler on account of leakage or otherwise, and

which shell can be readily Washed and will give to the boiler the same general appearance that other enamel, porcelain, or tiled articles may have in a kitchen, and this at a comparatively moderate expense.

The beadshown inFigr 1' resting upon the boiler does not prevent the circulation of air, for the reason that there is no air-tight joint at this point, and there could not Well be, for, as is Well known, there are many imperfections in the metal of a boiler of this kind, itnot being perfectly true, and neither is the bead perfectly true; consequently, there is nothing to prevent the passage of air between the bead and the top of the boiler.

I claim as my invention:

1. A stand or range boiler provided With a detachable open-ended enameled shell of larger size than said boiler, said shell having an inturned bead around one of its open ends and adapted to rest on said boiler thereby to maintain the boiler and shell spaced apart.

2. As an article .of manufacture, a detach able enameled shell for stand or range boilers, said shell being open to the atmosphere adjacent to the boiler at both ends thereof, the opening at the upper end being surrounded by an inwardly turned reinforcing bead effective to maintain the boiler and shell properly spaced apart.

GEORGE o. FIRTH.

lVitnesses CHARLES CooK, M. SCHROEDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

